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Yay, more problems. Anyway...

I have a script that list files and links to download them from. Most of the links link to a .mus file but there are a few .htm files. I figured that making a redirect would be the easiest way but how do you actually redirect? I need to make it so that whenever someone visits the non-existing blahblahblahfilenamehere.mus it should redirect it automatically to blahblahblahfilenamehere.htm.

Any ideas how to do that?

Depending on your website, how about just a 404 page? Or, if possible, just a 404 page for the directory.


Example:
http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/custom404.shtml

Okay, maybe using a .htm file in the example was a bad idea. If the file the link links to is .filetype1 but there's no such a thing. But instead there's a file with a file extension .filetype2 and I want it to redirect it to that one?

mod_rewrite

RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ([^.]+)\.ccc /dir/newfile$1.html [L]

and 4 non-existing you can make script which check first and then send header.

mod_rewrite rocks. BTW, if you actually want to redirect it, this is what you want:

RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ([^.]+)\.ccc /dir/newfile$1.html [L,R]

Yeah, thanks for the help. mod_rewrite worked great.